Qatar Crimson Crescent Society (QRCS) has successfully secured clean drinking water for the displaced Syrians inhabiting Deir Hassan and close by camps in Idlib Governorate, Northern Syria. 

With a back-up of funding worth $697,643 from the UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), QRCS successfully achieved this efficient and sustainable venture of reinforcing pure water accessibility. 

For more than 12 months, QRCS’s illustration workplace in Turkey has been focusing on accomplishing this venture, targeting the repair of the water and sewage infrastructure in Deir Hassan and the nearby camps, inhabited by displaced Syrians.

The venture aimed to enhance accessibility to secure and clean drinking water for the residents and displaced inhabitants, thereby decreasing dependency on vehicles for maneurvering water, in turn, bolstering the local people’s resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The project moved across different cycles – repairing and rehabilitating the water supply system, and installing water tanks at camps. Besides the renovation of sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants, sewage services have been made available for 8,489 people with an extended aim of protecting the environment.

With the successful execution of the projects, several problems, such as inadequate and impure water, damaged sewage systems, and lack of a cost-recovery method to ensure water sustainability for years at the neighboring camps have been resolved.

Now, over half of the town’s population along with the inhabitants of the camps have access to clean drinking water.